The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.